Not My Only Ghost

I've just shrugged off a weight
I didn't know I was bearing,
And here, like a ghost, you come.
 
Not even in memory
 for years,
And here you are,
Two feet away,
And I'm remembering nineteen
 Like it was last week.

Are you back to say
 She's not my only ghost?


June 27, 2000
© Lela Kaunitz